42 USC 7384e – Establishment of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund
(a) Establishment
There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury a fund to be known as the “Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund” (in this subchapter referred to as the “compensation fund”).
(b) Amounts in compensation fund
Terms Used In 42 USC 7384e
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
The compensation fund shall consist of the following amounts:
(1) Amounts appropriated to the compensation fund pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 7384g(b) of this title.
(2) Amounts transferred to the compensation fund under subsection (c).
(c) Financing of compensation fund
Upon the exhaustion of amounts in the compensation fund attributable to the authorization of appropriations in section 7384g(b) of this title, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer directly to the compensation fund from the General Fund of the Treasury, without further appropriation, such amounts as are further necessary to carry out the compensation program.
(d) Use of compensation fund
Subject to subsection (e), amounts in the compensation fund shall be used to carry out the compensation program.
(e) Administrative costs not paid from compensation fund
No cost incurred in carrying out the compensation program, or in administering the compensation fund, shall be paid from the compensation fund or set off against or otherwise deducted from any payment to any individual under the compensation program.
(f) Investment of amounts in compensation fund
Amounts in the compensation fund shall be invested in accordance with section 9702 of title 31, and any interest on, and proceeds from, any such investment shall be credited to and become a part of the compensation fund.